Fostering Creativity

When it comes to fostering creativity in the classroom, we as teachers might be fighting an uphill battle. That is no problem for us, though, because we know what the students are capable of and we can get it out of the. That is why we get paid the big bucks and have a Secretary of Education who believes in us as well (insert sarcastic eye roll emoji). In my classroom, I want to give the students every possible way of creating their own means of expression on class topics. In the Topics in Psych class, we were in the chapter about deviance and behavior. There are several topics that the students might find interesting and I want to give them the chance to show in their own way what Deviance might mean to them. We are getting ready to start the new chapter on race and ethnicity. I am thinking about creating a project where the students learn about their ethnic heritage and create some sort of expression to show off their heritage. Maybe they could create some sort of poster, or learn some words in a native language, or maybe they show off an ethnic dance. There are many ways for the students to create different means of expression, especially when it involves them and their personal histories. There has to be some way for a student to show off where their ancestors came from. It does not have to be an elaborate presentation because freshmen boys sure as heck will not do that, but maybe they can draw a picture of make a slide show to show off some historical and geographic representations of the countries that their family came from.